Meet with new employees during their first week (please)

This should not be that novel, or hard, of a concept.

I have no idea who wouldn't do this, but apparently it's something that a HR division head at Microsoft felt like needed to be written about in Harvard Business Review. I suppose there are some managers who utterly and completely ignore new hires in Week 1, which is insane to even ponder. You just spent four-six weeks running HR in circles trying to get…